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Bread doesn't have fructose, right?

by chmod600 3y ago

Simulacra 3y ago
Most bread sold in the grocery store has high fructose corn syrup
- DC-3 3y ago
  (in the USA)
- graton 3y ago
  Do you have any data to back that assertion? In my limited searching I found an article that says the opposite, but they also don't provide any data[1] [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/secrets-of-store-bought-bread-youll-wish-you-knew-sooner/ar-AA1ivtYd https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/secrets-of-store-...
  - Simulacra 3y ago
    #10. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-with-high-fructose-corn-syrup#10.-Bread-and-crackers https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-with-high-fructos... It would be nice if there was a database of food labels.
    - InSteady 3y ago
      You can find this info on https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ The search function and UI is terrible, though. There used to be a website self.nutritiondata.com that was amazing. Full calorie, carb, fat, and nutrient profiles on all manner of whole foods, plus lots of branded processed food labels as well. Apparently they had to take it all down because it was out of date. They got all of their info form the USDA link above, so the data still exists and there are other web apps out there that organize it for you, but they all pale in comparison to the old self.nutritiondata, sadly.
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- devmor 3y ago
  The packaged, pre-sliced stuff from brands, yeah. Most grocery stores also have a bakery though, and its far less common there.
- KMag 3y ago
  Sucrose is broken down in the stomach (by the low pH) and small intestine (by sucrase) into a 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose. The most common high fructose corn syrups are (to a first-order approximation, after dehydration) 58/42 and 45/55 mixtures of glucose and fructose. I'm not saying HFCS is good, but a sucrose-sweetened bread is likely just as bad for you as an HFCS sweetened bread, if the mass of sweetener is the same. Edit: When I was at Google, I remember some employees complaining that the only free sodas were either HFCS-sweetened or artificially-sweetened. So, we later got some agave-sweetened free sodas. The things is agave nectar is 56% fructose. The most common HFCS grades are 42% and 55% fructose. Maybe agave nectar is maybe marginally more healthy, but really... if you're going to get that worked up, you're much better off training yourself to be content without the free soda. Drink soda, or not, but please don't fool yourself into thinking switching from 55% fructose to 56% fructose is a health intervention. Maybe people are afraid of trace residues from the HFCS processing, but all evidence suggests that the fructose is orders of magnitude more harmful than any ingested byproducts of the HFCS manufacturing process.
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Bread doesn't have fructose, right?

Simulacra 3y ago

Most bread sold in the grocery store has high fructose corn syrup

DC-3 3y ago
(in the USA)
graton 3y ago
Do you have any data to back that assertion? In my limited searching I found an article that says the opposite, but they also don't provide any data[1] [1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/secrets-of-store-bought-bread-youll-wish-you-knew-sooner/ar-AA1ivtYd https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/secrets-of-store-...
- Simulacra 3y ago
  #10. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-with-high-fructose-corn-syrup#10.-Bread-and-crackers https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-with-high-fructos... It would be nice if there was a database of food labels.
  - InSteady 3y ago
    You can find this info on https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ The search function and UI is terrible, though. There used to be a website self.nutritiondata.com that was amazing. Full calorie, carb, fat, and nutrient profiles on all manner of whole foods, plus lots of branded processed food labels as well. Apparently they had to take it all down because it was out of date. They got all of their info form the USDA link above, so the data still exists and there are other web apps out there that organize it for you, but they all pale in comparison to the old self.nutritiondata, sadly.
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devmor 3y ago
The packaged, pre-sliced stuff from brands, yeah. Most grocery stores also have a bakery though, and its far less common there.
KMag 3y ago
Sucrose is broken down in the stomach (by the low pH) and small intestine (by sucrase) into a 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose. The most common high fructose corn syrups are (to a first-order approximation, after dehydration) 58/42 and 45/55 mixtures of glucose and fructose. I'm not saying HFCS is good, but a sucrose-sweetened bread is likely just as bad for you as an HFCS sweetened bread, if the mass of sweetener is the same. Edit: When I was at Google, I remember some employees complaining that the only free sodas were either HFCS-sweetened or artificially-sweetened. So, we later got some agave-sweetened free sodas. The things is agave nectar is 56% fructose. The most common HFCS grades are 42% and 55% fructose. Maybe agave nectar is maybe marginally more healthy, but really... if you're going to get that worked up, you're much better off training yourself to be content without the free soda. Drink soda, or not, but please don't fool yourself into thinking switching from 55% fructose to 56% fructose is a health intervention. Maybe people are afraid of trace residues from the HFCS processing, but all evidence suggests that the fructose is orders of magnitude more harmful than any ingested byproducts of the HFCS manufacturing process.

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